Texas mother Porucha Phillips ARRESTED after police find children chained up in back yard

A pregnant mother has been arrested after Texas police found two severely injured toddlers chained up in her back yard with another six children left alone inside the property.

Porucha Phillips, 34, was arrested in San Antonio after conceed neighbors called cops at 11.45pm on Thursday night to reports of a child that would not stop crying.

When officers arrived they discovered a two-year-old boy and three-year-old girl suffering from a fractured arm tied up in the back yard by a chain and a dog leash.

Officers say they found a three-year-old girl suffering from a fractured arm tied up in the back yard with a dog leash, another boy chained to the ground in the yard, and six more children inside the house

Officers said the boy had a chain tied around one ankle with the other end secured to the ground, while the girl was secured to the frame of the back door by a leash.

James Keith, spokesman for Bexar County Sheriff's Office, told KENS5 that when police forced their way inside the house where they found six more children left without an adult at home.

Those infants, who are believed to be Phillips' children, are aged between 10 months and 10 years old, according to Keith.

He said: 'They were exhausted, tired, dehydrated. There was evidence that they had been previously abused, it makes you sick to see something like this, it makes you angry.

'To call this horrific is an understatement, this is as disturbing as it comes. Everybody is bothered by this. It motivates you to fight harder to make sure this is taken care of.' 

The toddlers found in the back yard are not thought to belong to Phillips, and detectives are currently hunting for their parents.

Phillips and another adult, believed to be the father of the six children in the home, retued to the property in the early hours of Friday moing where they were arrested.

James Keith, spokesman for Bexar County Sheriff's Office, said Phillips has been charged with child injury but added investigations are ongoing and more charges are expected

Keith said that Phillips is the only one currently charged with child abandonment and injury offences, but that more charges are expected to follow.

It is thought that Phillips' was supposed to be caring for the two children found in her back yard, but her exact relationship to the infants and their parents is unknown.

The girl and boy in the yard were taken to hospital where the girl was placed into intensive care, according to Fox San Antonio.

The girl is reported to be suffering from a fractured arm and wrist, while the boy has abrasions and scarring. 

Chris Tippery, who lives nearby, told My San Antonio: 'They didn't come out much. They keep (the kids) in the house for the most part.

'Sometimes you would see them outside in their diapers. They seemed like all right people.'

All eight children have now been placed into child protective custody, while investigations continue. Phillips is in custody pending a $150,000 bond.